Congratulations

We drew a couple of random numbers and the winners of the book contest are Terhi and Birgitte. Terhi said “Instead of knitting book I have an addiction to Veeras (100 rain) patterns. Not just beautiful sweaters but also nice to knit.”
I’ve been following Veera Välimäki’s work for a while and love how her designs are contemporary, very wearable and look like they’d be interesting to knit. As soon as I saw this cardigan I started daydreaming about outfits it could be part of, Driven.

Birgitte commented that her “favourite recently published knitting book is the Bird Collection by Amimono (Amimono.dk).” Isn’t the styling of that beautiful? Recently I knit a project for a book in Isager yarn and was really impressed by its quality, in addition to the sophisticated colour palette that I’ve found inspiring for a long time. Birgitte’s latest blog post shows her first project from the book, the Nightingale vest, in a fascinating stitch pattern that I’ve seen before but never really considered in clothing, it works surprisingly well though.

Pricing patterns has always been one of the hardest parts of designing and I’ve often felt like the “standard” price of knitting patterns is both lower than other similar products (eg. indie sewing patterns) and doesn’t really reflect the amount of work that goes into them. At the same time, it’s totally fair to worry that rising pattern prices will price people out.